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Dewaine Cooper emailed me and asked, “How do you handle students who don’t want to participate in youth activities?”
The short answer:…

Jeff Beckley writes the following guest post for Life In Student Ministry. Self-image and weight is something teenage girls battle today. As male youth pastors…

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
Sin is something we all try to avoid, and rightly so. But lately I’ve realized there’s more to it than just eliminating…

In this week’s LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation we talked about how we can evaluate the spiritual depth of our youth ministries. We all want our youth…

Back in July I featured Steve Quatro in our LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation where he gave us ideas for encouraging teenagers to consider ministry as a…

In a couple weeks I’m speaking at a retreat for sr. pastors who serve here in the northwest. For the first session they asked me to teach sr. pastors how…

It seems like most youth pastors and sr. pastors think that college students or young married couples make the best youth workers, usually because, “The…

The typical way of keeping parents up-to-date while on a youth trip is to call home when something bad happens. “Sorry, Mrs. Johnson. Your son has mashed…

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
How do you feel when you hear the Hallelujah chorus? Does it sound joyful to you? We assume Handle must have been overflowing with…